Community Healthcare Support Worker

We are looking for enthusiastic a Community Healthcare Support Worker to provide care and support for patients in the community setting as delegated by the registered nurse based in Teddington working with the Teddington and Hampton team.
Access to a motor vehicle is essential - car, with appropriate driving license. Please ensure that your application demonstrates that you meet the essential criteria as listed in the job specification.
There may be an opportunity for the successful candidate to transfer onto the Trust's apprenticeship scheme and develop as a Registered Nurse Associate., To work within the Community Nursing Team to provide care and support for patients in the community setting as delegated by the registered nurse.
To carry out clinical duties and be prepared to undertake clinical skills update as per needs of the service and specific patient after training and competence assessment, with support from an identified mentor for example, venepuncture, blood pressure, pulse and temperature recording, urinalysis, blood glucose monitoring, simple wound dressings and noncomplex assessments such as continence reviews.
This will involve working independently but as part of the Community Nursing Team covering a specific geographical area and be flexible to support corporate approach to patient care depending on the need of the service.

At HRCH, we only want to provide the type of outstanding care that we would recommend to our family and friends. We provide community healthcare and urgent treatment services for over 515,000 people living across the London boroughs of Hounslow and Richmond-Upon-Thames.
In the latest NHS Staff Survey results for community trusts, we had the highest percentage of staff in the country who felt their role made a difference to patients. We also had top scores for satisfaction with the quality of care staff can deliver.
We are the top community trust in the country for Staff engagement, Quality of care and Quality of appraisals, according to the theme results in the 2019 staff survey.
In 2018 we were named 'Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction' by the Nursing Times and won the HSJ Workforce Award.
Our job is all about people and we believe that staff who feel valued and supported deliver better outcomes for our patients, so we invest in our people and their ideas.